Garrett Petersen
@gpetersen.bsky.social
Dad running for NY-02 to make Long Island more affordable for working families. #LGM. #WideAwakes
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Garrett Petersen
@gpetersen.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Long Island deserves a Representative who fights for working families and stands up to Trump’s attacks. Meanwhile, Andrew Garbarino can’t even wake up to vote.
I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...
I'm running for Congress because I know we can fight our way out of this. Be a day 1 donor: secure.actblue.com/donate/garre...
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Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
Senior CDC official: Loss of measles elimination status in U.S. would be ‘cost of doing business’
The principal deputy director of the CDC said he would not view the loss of the United States' measles elimination status as a significant event.
www.statnews.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Jesus Christ www.statnews.com/2026/01/20/c...
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This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 20, 2026 at 10:53 PM
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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it is good when we acknowledge the good things that are done, which sometimes is just making sure bad things don't happen.
a year ago i wrote a story that went viral over here about how republicans could create a de facto national care ban for trans medicine
to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would
today, they stopped it
to stop it, democrats would have to hold the line in funding talks, and staff in congress told me they were unsure if they would
today, they stopped it
Will Democrats Let the GOP Gut Trans Health Care?
Donald Trump and Republicans may try to ban funding to companies that perform trans health care. Some fear Democrats won't stop them.
www.rollingstone.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:27 AM
it is good when we acknowledge the good things that are done, which sometimes is just making sure bad things don't happen.
Inject this directly into my veins
I remain a big fan of the Democrats finally countering the dog playing basketball by bringing out a slam dunking labrador instead of complaining to the refs again
BREAKING: Maryland advances a redistricting plan that could wipe out the GOP’s last U.S. House seat in the state — as Democrats move to counter Republican gerrymanders nationwide.
January 21, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Inject this directly into my veins
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I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 AM
I'm still thinking of the fact that Zohran Mamdani went on The View, said "abolish ICE" and then got a round of applause
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Conservatives, after all, consistently win elections with their disciplined focus on dull kitchen-table concerns and scrupulous avoidance of distracting rhetoric about atrocities, scandals, and malfeasance.
Bad news folks: Schumer is entirely correct here. Americans outside Minnesota care far more about these five things than they care about anything happening in Minneapolis
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
January 20, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Conservatives, after all, consistently win elections with their disciplined focus on dull kitchen-table concerns and scrupulous avoidance of distracting rhetoric about atrocities, scandals, and malfeasance.
My moderately hot take is that Carlos Beltran was the best position player the Mets ever had up until maybe now, fans give him too much shit for him looking at one of the nastiest curveballs I've witnessed in 40 years of watching baseball, and I'm glad he's going in the Hall as a Met.
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 AM
My moderately hot take is that Carlos Beltran was the best position player the Mets ever had up until maybe now, fans give him too much shit for him looking at one of the nastiest curveballs I've witnessed in 40 years of watching baseball, and I'm glad he's going in the Hall as a Met.
Abolish ICE.
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
January 21, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Abolish ICE.
Warming up for my Tuesday evening workout and the dude next to me has been balancing on his head and forearms, full extension with feet in the air, for a solid five minutes and ngl it's a little intimidating.
January 20, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Warming up for my Tuesday evening workout and the dude next to me has been balancing on his head and forearms, full extension with feet in the air, for a solid five minutes and ngl it's a little intimidating.
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What are the Top 5 Mad King Moments in history, anyway?
"Asked why ownership was important instead of just fortifying Greenland, he said, 'Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.' Asked if he meant... for himself or... the country, he said, 'Psychologically important for me.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
What are the Top 5 Mad King Moments in history, anyway?
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Just gotta find that magic word to describe people opposed to you so you can safely brutalise them. Dehumanise them enough and you'll feel nothing but joy as you shoot them in the face. America, 2026.
Q: The criticism is about ICE tactics against ordinary citizens who are not sex offenders. What do you say to that?
BOVINO: It's anarchists that actually cause ma & pa America to sometimes be near or involved in very tense situations. The only people dialing dow rhetoric is federal law enforcement
BOVINO: It's anarchists that actually cause ma & pa America to sometimes be near or involved in very tense situations. The only people dialing dow rhetoric is federal law enforcement
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Just gotta find that magic word to describe people opposed to you so you can safely brutalise them. Dehumanise them enough and you'll feel nothing but joy as you shoot them in the face. America, 2026.
I am the 'comprehensive immigration reform' candidate in NY-2! It's home to the current Republican chair of the Homeland Security committee.
i get why focusing on “what Dems can do right now” is attractive to some argument-based posting accounts, but I would also like some folks to join me, a serious Abolish ICE poster, in calling your rep and making plans to make “comprehensive immigration reform” a priority in Dem fed primaries
right, and tbh both of those demands are downstream of a political effort to rewrite the immigration code through the legislature, and that's only coming with a Dem trifecta that is ready to push it when the time comes
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
I am the 'comprehensive immigration reform' candidate in NY-2! It's home to the current Republican chair of the Homeland Security committee.
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Again on my "trust fund kids" hobbyhorse: Trump & co have never understood that American power was not exclusively a matter of having the economic & military ability to bully people, but about much of the rest of the world viewing that power as providing net benefits.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Again on my "trust fund kids" hobbyhorse: Trump & co have never understood that American power was not exclusively a matter of having the economic & military ability to bully people, but about much of the rest of the world viewing that power as providing net benefits.
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
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Read this excellent piece.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Read this excellent piece.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
Buckle is right. Liberalism is alive and well -- in fact, more popular & more activist than any time since Reagan.
Liberals did not become fascists. Conservatives became fascists.
Liberalism did not die. The center-right died so the far-right might live.
If NATO survives to the midterms so Dems can actually reign this moron in, then it survives. Its too useful to throw away. Of course the assumption is we're not back here with an even bigger lunatic in seven years or whatever but that's on us!
Yeah, I do think there will be some incentives by all parties involved at the international level to quickly move on from this. Pre-Trump NATO really was an important stabilizing, peacekeeping, and Russia-hedging institution, and throwing it away completely would be difficult.
I think a lot of Americans are unprepared for how insanely bad things will get if Trump actually goes for this, but conversely a lot of people on here are underrating how fast things will get memory holed and smoothed over if there’s a climb down
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If NATO survives to the midterms so Dems can actually reign this moron in, then it survives. Its too useful to throw away. Of course the assumption is we're not back here with an even bigger lunatic in seven years or whatever but that's on us!
Perish, then.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Perish, then.
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it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time
January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time
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They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over
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It's striking to see what's happening in MN, having recently read Paul Collier's "Exodus." Collier's gripe w/ immigration is that it erodes a society's "mutual regard." MN is showing multiethnic, mutual regard in spades.
It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo
Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors!
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.
January 19, 2026 at 12:16 PM
It's striking to see what's happening in MN, having recently read Paul Collier's "Exodus." Collier's gripe w/ immigration is that it erodes a society's "mutual regard." MN is showing multiethnic, mutual regard in spades.
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Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned
To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned
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If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.
January 20, 2026 at 5:26 AM
If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.
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If this administration hadn't seemingly completely forgotten about the ongoing conventional war in Ukraine we could have spent the last year ruthlessly euthanizing whatever was left of Russian State capacity and made this entire point moot.
Whatever Arctic expeditionary capability the Russians had died in the mud in Ukraine. Aside from Russian boomers, the main threat in the Arctic comes from PRC and Russian subversive activities. Cable sabotage, espionage, land purchases and general shenanigans. NATO has largely woken up to this.
January 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
If this administration hadn't seemingly completely forgotten about the ongoing conventional war in Ukraine we could have spent the last year ruthlessly euthanizing whatever was left of Russian State capacity and made this entire point moot.
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
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reading this poll, not a single number here is net favorable for the trump administration. "trump admin.'s plan to deport immigrants here illegally in the U.S." is underwater among independents by 20 points! www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
CBS News poll finds more Americans say ICE being too tough; Republicans feel protesters have gone too far
Looking overseas, there is wide opposition to the idea of taking Greenland by force.
www.cbsnews.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:25 AM
reading this poll, not a single number here is net favorable for the trump administration. "trump admin.'s plan to deport immigrants here illegally in the U.S." is underwater among independents by 20 points! www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...